interested in one of the MS4W addon packages and looking to avoid
configuration issues.

any MapServer user who needs a quick and dirty installation on Windows.

In any of these cases, and probably more, MS4W can help you. However, a few
notes about this package:

This is not a true installer, it will not modify any file or registry
setting outside of the MS4W directory.

Since it is not a true installer, it will not install to any location. It
*** MUST *** be installed at the root of one of the drives
on your system.

The MS4W addon packages must be extracted at the same root as the base
installer, and files must be overwritten.

Features

MS4W contains default installations of Apache, PHP, MapServ, MapScript (CSharp, Java, PHP, Python)
and some sample applications. It is structured in such a way as to facilitate
upgrading individual components without messing up the rest of the install.
The base installer package comes pre-configured with the following software: